Education
In 1785 he attended the University of Leiden, where he majored in law.
In 1785 he attended the University of Leiden, where he majored in law.
Van Hogendorp was born in Rotterdam, and went to school in Berlin. He was pensionaris, main legal advisor and advocate, of Rotterdam from 1788 to 1795, only to be dismissed for having princely "orange" sympathies after a republican revolt. He was part of the Driemanschap (Triumvirate) that invited William I of the Netherlands to become Prince of the new independent Netherlands in 1813.
He served as Foreign Minister from 7 December 1813 to 6 April 1814, and headed the commission that wrote the Constitution of the Netherlands of 1814.
He was the great-great-great-grandfather of Audrey Hepburn.